Calypso Calaloo: Early Carnival Music in Trinidad
Calypso Calaloo: Early Carnival Music in Trinidad
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Calypso Calaloo：特立尼达的早期狂欢节音乐
DOI：
10.2307/899326
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发表时间：
1993
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0.7
通讯作者：
D. Hill
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作者：
D. Hill
“玛蒂尔达，她带着我的钱去管理委内瑞拉”，听起来可能很熟悉，但“从丑闻和丑恶的酒神/今天我们得到了一个光荣的狂欢节”，或者“无论你走到哪里，你一定会遇到悲伤的人/他们寻找工作，没有人可以拥有”。经典的卡里普索是加勒比文化最伟大的创造之一，它不仅仅是在俯瞰热带海滩的粉色酒店里为游客播放的轻浮的音乐。许多传统的calypso也是社会评论，反映了特立尼达艰难的社会和政治演变，有时并不那么微妙。这本书是关于制作卡利普索的人，这是特立尼达狂欢节的主题音乐，以及产生它的社会。希尔将卡利普索从18世纪的狂欢节街头音乐，到后来的嘉年华帐篷，再到美国和英国的俱乐部巡回演出和录音会议，直到20世纪50年代，伟大的先驱卡利普索乐队——咆哮的老虎，侵略者，咆哮的狮子，匈奴人阿提拉，以及第一代的其他成员——最终进入了其中一位成员所说的“氛围”。参与者对他们的艺术发展的看法占了这本书的很大一部分。阅读音乐和听音乐是不一样的，所以这本书附有一张光盘。希尔收集了卡利普索历史的录音样本，结果是一个收藏家的梦想——一个来自史密森尼博物馆、其他档案馆和商业工作室的大部分稀有曲目的汇编。希尔用61张calypsonians的照片和录制音乐的随身物品，以及30多首最重要的calypso歌曲的歌词转录，calypso术语词汇表和calypso录音的注释唱片来说明他的书。对卡利普索发展的概述应该会吸引加勒比海和民族音乐学的学生，民俗学家和唱片收藏家，以及任何跟着“棕色皮肤的女孩”或“玛丽安”（“在海边筛选沙子”）哼唱的人。
"Mathilda, she take me money and run Venezuela", may sound familiar, but how about "From a scandal and hideous bacchanal/Today we got a glorious carnival", or "anywhere you go you must meet people sad/They search for employment, none can be had". Classic calypso, one of the greatest creations of Caribbean culture, is more than the frivolous music played for tourists in pink hotels overlooking tropical beaches. Much traditional calypso is also social commentary and has reflected, sometimes not so subtly, Trinidad's difficult social and political evolution. This book is about the people who made calypso, the topical music of Trinidad's Carnival, and about the society that spawned it. Hill follows calypso from its 18th-century origins in Carnival street music to Carnival tents and later to the club circuit and recording sessions in the United States and Britain, up to the moment in the 1950s when the great pioneer calypsonians - The Growling Tiger, Lord Invader, The Roaring Lion, Attila the Hun, and the rest of the first generation - had finally passed into what one of its members called "the atmosphere". The participants' opinion of the development of their art comprises a large part of the book. Reading about music is not the same as listening to it, so a compact disk accompanies this book. Hill has collected a sampling of the history of Calypso on record, and the result is a collector's dream - a compilation of largely rare tracks from the Smithsonian, other archives and commercial studios. Hill has illustrated his book with 61 photographs of calypsonians and the paraphernelia of recorded music, and with transcriptions of the lyrics of over 30 of the most important calypso songs, a glossary of calypso terms and an annotated discography of calypso recordings. This overview of the development of calypso should appeal to students of the Caribbean and ethnomusicology, to folklorists and record collectors and to anyone who has hummed along with "Brown-skin Girl" or "Mary Ann" ("Down by the seaside sifting sand").